Margin bridge
Why did gross margin come in 60 bps under plan?
- Walks plan to actual one driver at a time, each bar traced to ledger lines
- A three-line read beneath it says what moved, with the number first
- Drill any bar into the customers, products or cost heads behind it
- Base oil — input cost up 7.8% QoQ and only half passed through; cost 90 bps
- Pricing — the 1 Aug list-price increase recovered 40 bps
- Mix — industrial oils rose to 24% of volume, adding 20 bps